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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: avoid atomic allocations during initialization
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Dmitry Kravkov <dkravkov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:07:50 +0300

> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 7:29 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> Probe should never fail because of an atomic memory allocation if at
>> all possible.
> We here are in open() flow, not probe()

It's the same from my perspective.

Better to drop some packets than have _COMPLETELY INOPERATIVE INTERFACE_.